[libvirt-users] snapshot with libvirt tools or with lvm tools ?

Hi, i asked already a time ago about snapshots. I have some guests, each resides in a raw file, placed on an ext3 fs which is on top of a logical volume, for each guest a dedicated lv. The raw is not a "must have", if there are obvious reasons i can convert them to a qcow2. What i want is a consistent backup of each guest taken overnight. If possible i won't have downtime. I can use the libvirt tools, but the lvm way seems to be more elegant. Before copying the file the guests resides in i take a snapshot from the respective lv. Then i mount the snapshot and transfer it via rsync on a CIFS share. Rsync seems to be the appropriate tool because i just transfer the changes in the file compared to the file from a day before. So i don't have to transfer complete and big raw files but just the difference. The guest still can be running, and after the transfer of the snapshot file i just delete it, and the next night the same procedure. What do you think ? Bernd -- Bernd Lentes Systemadministration Institut für Entwicklungsgenetik Gebäude 35.34 - Raum 208 HelmholtzZentrum münchen [ mailto:bernd.lentes@helmholtz-muenchen.de | bernd.lentes(a)helmholtz-muenchen.de ] phone: +49 89 3187 1241 fax: +49 89 3187 2294 [ http://www.helmholtz-muenchen.de/idg | http://www.helmholtz-muenchen.de/idg ] no backup - no mercy Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Gesundheit und Umwelt (GmbH) Ingolstaedter Landstr. 1 85764 Neuherberg www.helmholtz-muenchen.de Aufsichtsratsvorsitzende: MinDir'in Baerbel Brumme-Bothe Geschaeftsfuehrer: Prof. Dr. Guenther Wess, Heinrich Bassler, Dr. Alfons Enhsen Registergericht: Amtsgericht Muenchen HRB 6466 USt-IdNr: DE 129521671